Pilots offer peek into planes before Air Race Classic - Iowa City Press Citizen | The Air Race Classic, a race featuring women pilots flying a designated route, starts this year from Iowa City on Tuesday and ends 2700 miles later in Mobile, Ala. Minnetta Gardinier, start chairwoman for this year's Air Race Classic, said the Welcome ...
We made it to Iowa City! from Air Race Classic by ejackson | We (Melanie and Erin) successfully made the trip from KMDH to KIOW! Roger, our line service manager, was there to pull our airplane out of our hangar and wave to us as we left Carbondale. We got to practice using our GPS with xm weather to divert around a line of storms near St. Louis…
F-16s, discounts elevate air show - Denton Record Chronicle | The Air Force F-16 Viper West and the Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet Legacy Flight demonstration teams posed for photos and signed autographs during the breakfast. Minh-Nhap Nguyen, 8, took a picture with the F-16 pilots. It was his first time at the air ...
WW2 vet sees B-25 bomber for first time since his crashed in 1945 - York Daily Record | World War II veteran William Burhans hands a camera to his son-in-law Duane Harlacker so he can take a photo of him in the cockpit of the B-25 bomber during the Aviation Days at York Airport on Saturday. Burhans, of Shiloh, served in a ...
Stafford: Plane's return brings memories of historic flight - Springfield News Sun | The route from New York to Los Angeles was called the “Lindbergh Line,” and both aviation hero Charles Lindbergh and aviatrix Amelia Earhart lent (or perhaps sold) their names to the project. That same day a front-page story announced that the rival ...
WWII vets, planes at center of aviation display - The State | While the airplanes had their own stories, so, too, did the World War II veterans who were on hand, including Jim Shannon, who once rescued famed Tokyo raider James Doolittle, and Daniel Rossman, who was onboard a B-25 that crashed into Lake Greenwood ... Family gathers to celebrate a beloved and heroic father - Bradenton Herald | He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II, flying the B-25 bomber from the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea, bombing targets in Italy and southern France. In all he flew 67 missions, attacking railroad yards, ...
COCKPITFEST AUSTRALIA - REPORT PART 1 from Heritage flight gear / flying gear displays | June 2011 - The first ever warbird aircraft cockpit gathering event has now been held in Australia. From afar came cockpits, people, ejection seats, panels and components all to showcase aviation history and to enlighten people to why they were built/used etc…College rocket teams competing in Utah contest from RLV and Space Transport News | Ten teams are competing this weekend in southern Utah in the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association's 6th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, which is sponsored by SpaceX and several other companeis and organizations: College rocket competition lights up S. Utah sky - Deseret News - June.17.11 …
College rocket competition lights up S. Utah sky - Deseret News | The students are doing real-world rocketry with potential technical and safety problems, building on what they learn in college. Matthew Dushku, the range safety official for the competition, grills the teams before giving clearance for each launch. ...
Disturbing yet wonderful dreams of a Spaceliner reappear in time for the Paris Air Show from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | It is always unsettling to write about the ‘shape of things to come’, that will come, but long after you have gone. So it may be for many readers, as the EADS Astrium Spaceliner is relaunched as a concept for at least the third time in 13 months, or if you wish, twice in the last 24 hours, as the lights are about to go on at the Paris Air Show.
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